The audio was clear, it was a little louder than it needed to be, and the order of the verses was exactly how God intended - the official southern remix, starting with Shawty Lo and then going from Ludacris to Young Jeezy to Plies to Lil’ Wayne. The remix to “Dey Know” was a tricky one, because seemingly every rapper threw a verse over the infectious marching-band-heavy beat at some point, generating a sea of create-your-own five-minute remixes.Įventually, a perfect version surfaced, uploaded to YouTube on March 8, 2008. Finding a song wasn’t hard, but finding the correct, well-mastered, meant-to-be-played-in-public version of a song often took some time. This was the time in which I knelt at the altar of the YouTube-to-MP3 converter. But the first track - and the most recently released, sending my collegiate life into a whirlwind of homesickness - was the remix to “Dey Know” by Shawty Lo. Included were the “Throw Some Ds” remix, the “We Fly High” megamix, and the “I’m So Hood” remix. The CD was a testament to the golden age of sprawling, posse cut remixes that had dominated the previous two years. I burned this CD early in 2008, in preparation for the next time I came home from college to Atlanta. There is a CD that still lives in a leather case in my mom’s trunk that is so scratched it doesn’t even skip.
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